In Cold Blood Questions and Answers

In Part III, we learn that Perry resented never having had an education. His family was poor, and his mother was an alcoholic. After being taken from his mother, he was put in an orphange where he was beaten for wetting the bed and summarily...

Once her anguish had subsided, Mrs. Hickock expressed a need to confide. "There's nobody much I can talk to," she told her companion. "I don't mean people haven't been kind, neighbors and all. And strangers, too - strangers have...